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The recent admission by authorities in Henan province that a man was tortured until he falsely confessed to a murder has raised questions over how cases are dealt with a cross China.

With traffic and environmental problems in China not set to go away anytime soon, urban planners here are increasingly turning to public transport as a way to manage some of the less desirable effects of the country’s breakneck urbanization. However, each of the traditional forms of public transportation we’re all familiar with has its drawbacks, forcing those planners to make tough tradeoffs between cost and efficiency. One Beijing inventor claims to have come up with a solution though, an entirely new kind of vehicle that might change the game for urban transport as we know it.

China's Communist Party recently celebrated its 89th birthday, and really, why not celebrate? It's the largest political party in the world by membership, unchallenged ruler of the world's most populous nation, admired by other bureaucracies around the world for its efficiency and adaptability: we should all be so lucky to look so good at 89! BON'S MATT SCHRADER pes into the birthday celebrations for a closer look at what it means to party and non-party members alike . . .

China is both the world's fastest growing economy and the world's leading polluter.  As a result, the country faces the twin challenges of reducing its carbon emissions while at the same time providing more power for its people's growing energy demands.

For years, China has relied heavily on dirty coal to provide much of this energy, but as Andrew Livingstone reports, moves are underway to improve efficiency in coal fired stations.